Welcome to the official homepage of New Mexico's Digital Trunked Radio System (DTRS)!!

DTRS is revolutionizing public safety radio communications within the State of New Mexico. It is a 700 & 800 MHz Project 25 (P25) Phase II digital trunked radio system providing statewide coverage to federal, state, local, and tribal agencies.

DTRS is an open platform available to all governmental first responder agencies within the State of New Mexico.

DTRS is owned and operated by the New Mexico Department of Information Technology Public Safety Communications Unit.

There are currently over 60 state, federal, tribal and local agencies on the DTRS

• Unprecedented interoperability
• Statewide coverage
• State-of-the-art digital clarity
• Significantly lower cost due to shared infrastructure
  • The state maintains all towers and core systems
  • Subscribers are only responsible for providing/maintaining end-user radios and dispatch consoles/equipment
• Increased capacity and security
• Advanced features such as GPS location reporting

The ultimate goal of DTRS is 92% statewide mobile radio coverage contributed from approximately 170 sites.

There are currently 53 sites online providing 49% total geographical mobile radio coverage.

The DTRS system currently handles about 1.8 million calls per month.

Subscribers in the following areas can take advantage of DTRS coverage today, with new areas being added monthly:

• Albuquerque Metro Area (including Counties of Bernalillo, Sandoval and Valencia) & East Mountains
• Santa Fe Area
• Las Cruces & Doña Ana County Area
• Chaves, Eddy and Lea County areas
• Socorro Area
• Alamogordo Area
• I-25 Corridor
• I-40 Corridor
• I-10 Corridor
• Dona Ana County
• Ruidoso Area
• Portions of Lincoln, Hidalgo, Grant, Luna, McKinley, Santa Fe, Torrance Counties

Contact Michael Rohrbacher, Director of Public Safety Communications, New Mexico Department of Information Technology. mailto:michael.rohrbacher@doit.nm.gov

The Public Safety Communications (PSC) unit is part of the New Mexico Department of Information Technology. PSC has over 40 full time employees working in seven facilities in five cities in New Mexico. PSC provides radio communications services to all executive state agencies, as well as participating federal, tribal, local, judicial and legislative agencies. PSC is proudly 100% self maintained, meaning that we do not rely on vendors for the day-to-day operation, maintenance or repair of our system infrastructure.

Director: Michael Rohrbacher: mailto:michael.rohrbacher@doit.nm.gov
Maintenance Operations Manager: Lucas Salazar: mailto:lucas.salazar@doit.nm.gov
Network Operations Manager: Christopher Perez: mailto:chris.perez@doit.nm.gov